Switch Bizhawk Client from console to winforms application; make "Show Log Window" a user-togglable option

BizHawk.MultiClient/BizHawk.MultiClient.csproj

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
     <ProductVersion>9.0.30729</ProductVersion>
     <SchemaVersion>2.0</SchemaVersion>
     <ProjectGuid>{DD448B37-BA3F-4544-9754-5406E8094723}</ProjectGuid>
-    <OutputType>Exe</OutputType>
+    <OutputType>WinExe</OutputType>
     <AppDesignerFolder>Properties</AppDesignerFolder>
     <RootNamespace>BizHawk.MultiClient</RootNamespace>
     <AssemblyName>BizHawk.MultiClient</AssemblyName>
@@ -138,6 +138,7 @@
     <Compile Include="Input\ControllerBinding.cs" />
     <Compile Include="Input\GamePad.cs" />
     <Compile Include="Input\Input.cs" />
+    <Compile Include="LogConsole.cs" />
     <Compile Include="movie\EditCommentsForm.cs">
       <SubType>Form</SubType>
     </Compile>

BizHawk.MultiClient/Config.cs

@@ -105,6 +105,7 @@
 		public bool EnableBackupMovies = true;
 		public bool HotkeyConfigAutoTab = true;
 		public bool InputConfigAutoTab = true;
+	    public bool ShowLogWindow = false;
 
 		// Run-Control settings
 		public int FrameProgressDelayMs = 500; //how long until a frame advance hold turns into a frame progress?

BizHawk.MultiClient/LogConsole.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+using System;
+using System.ComponentModel;
+using System.Diagnostics;
+using System.IO;
+using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
+using System.Windows.Forms;
+
+namespace BizHawk.MultiClient
+{
+    static class LogConsole
+    {
+        [DllImport("kernel32.dll", SetLastError = true)]
+        static extern bool AllocConsole();
+
+        [DllImport("kernel32.dll", SetLastError = true)]
+        static extern bool FreeConsole();
+
+        public static bool ConsoleVisible { get; private set; }
+
+        public static void ShowConsole()
+        {
+            if (ConsoleVisible) return;
+            AllocConsole();
+            ConsoleVisible = true;
+            var sout = new StreamWriter(Console.OpenStandardOutput());
+            sout.AutoFlush = true;
+            Console.SetOut(sout);
+        }
+
+        public static void HideConsole()
+        {
+            if (ConsoleVisible == false) return;
+            FreeConsole();
+            Console.SetOut(TextWriter.Null);
+            ConsoleVisible = false;
+        }
+    }
+}

BizHawk.MultiClient/MainForm.MenuItems.cs

@@ -1,16 +1,8 @@
 using System;
-using System.Threading;
 using System.Drawing;
-using System.Drawing.Imaging;
 using System.IO;
-using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
 using System.Windows.Forms;
-using BizHawk.Core;
-using BizHawk.Emulation.Consoles.Sega;
-using BizHawk.Emulation.Consoles.TurboGrafx;
 using BizHawk.Emulation.Consoles.Calculator;
-using BizHawk.Emulation.Consoles.Gameboy;
-using BizHawk.Emulation.Consoles.Nintendo;
 
 namespace BizHawk.MultiClient
 {
@@ -915,5 +907,15 @@ namespace BizHawk.MultiClient
 		{
 			StopUserMovie();
 		}
+
+        private void displayLogWindowToolStripMenuItem_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
+        {
+            Global.Config.ShowLogWindow ^= true;
+            displayLogWindowToolStripMenuItem.Checked = Global.Config.ShowLogWindow;
+            if (Global.Config.ShowLogWindow)
+                LogConsole.ShowConsole();
+            else
+                LogConsole.HideConsole();
+        }
 	}
 }

BizHawk.MultiClient/MainForm.cs

@@ -69,6 +69,12 @@ namespace BizHawk.MultiClient
 		public MainForm(string[] args)
 		{
 			InitializeComponent();
+            if (Global.Config.ShowLogWindow)
+            {
+                LogConsole.ShowConsole();
+                displayLogWindowToolStripMenuItem.Checked = true;
+            }
+
 		    UpdateStatusSlots();
 			//in order to allow late construction of this database, we hook up a delegate here to dearchive the data and provide it on demand
 			//we could background thread this later instead if we wanted to be real clever